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Bluesky account of the Everyday Human Rights newsletter, a daily dose of stories and insight relating to human rights. No prerequisites but curiosity and care for everyone’s rights.

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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 07/10/2026
Neutral was Never an Option How Desmond Tutu sided against injustice without losing the humanity in the oppressor
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Neutral was Never an Option
How Desmond Tutu sided against injustice without losing the humanity in the oppressor
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 05/10/2026
From the Sports Field to the Constitutional Court How Irene Grootboom and 900 other evicted people redefined the right to housing
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From the Sports Field to the Constitutional Court
How Irene Grootboom and 900 other evicted people redefined the right to housing
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 05/10/2026
We now have as many subscribers as UN members! Who's going to push us to 194!? everydayhumanrights.substack.com
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 04/10/2026
Not Guaranteed but Still Worth It What does the International Day of Non-Violence mean in a year of record conflict?
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Not Guaranteed but Still Worth It
What does the International Day of Non-Violence mean in a year of record conflict?
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 30/09/2026
Lost in Translation? The impressive work that carries rights across languages
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Lost in Translation?
The impressive work that carries rights across languages
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 29/09/2026
Turning Domestic Violence Into a Crime Against the Public How Mozambique took the burden from women in prosecuting offenders
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Turning Domestic Violence Into a Crime Against the Public
How Mozambique took the burden from women in prosecuting offenders
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 25/09/2026
The Original Twelve Amendments Two didn't make the cut. The rest became America’s Bill of Rights.
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The Original Twelve Amendments
Two didn't make the cut. The rest became America’s Bill of Rights.
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 23/09/2026
300 Languages You’ve Never Heard – or Heard of Happy International Day of Sign Languages! 👐
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300 Languages You’ve Never Heard – or Heard of
Happy International Day of Sign Languages! 👐
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 23/09/2026
We are stunned and ecstatic with the level of support we’ve seen. As of today, we hit 150 subscribers! Even more exiting is all the comments and conversations we’ve had recently. If this interests you, then join us either through email or on Substack: everydayhumanrights.substack.com
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 22/09/2026
The Right to Have Rights Hannah Arendt named what statelessness takes away because it had been taken from her everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 17/09/2026
When a State Steals the Life You Could’ve had How Loayza Tamayo v Peru made courts consider what someone who is wrongly imprisoned loses
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When a State Steals the Life You Could’ve had
How Loayza Tamayo v Peru made courts consider what someone who is wrongly imprisoned loses
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 11/09/2026
Shutting Down a Nation of 1.4 Billion People How Dalits refused to allow India’s Atrocities Act to be watered down
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Shutting Down a Nation of 1.4 Billion People
How Dalits refused to allow India’s Atrocities Act to be watered down
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 09/09/2026
How Do You Turn Your People from Subjects Into Citizens? Phan Châu Trinh’s use of the principles of the colonizer to free Vietnam
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How Do You Turn Your People from Subjects Into Citizens?
Phan Châu Trinh’s use of the principles of the colonizer to free Vietnam
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 07/09/2026
Is Big Brother Watching You? How Klass and Others v Germany established a right to challenge a spy you can’t see
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Is Big Brother Watching You?
How Klass and Others v Germany established a right to challenge a spy you can’t see
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 05/09/2026
The Blogger Who Couldn't Read Her Own Blog Yoani Sánchez wrote a blog receiving millions of visits, and Cuba blocked her for it
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The Blogger Who Couldn't Read Her Own Blog
Yoani Sánchez wrote a blog receiving millions of visits, and Cuba blocked her for it
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 13/08/2026
When a Country Gave Women Rights Most of the Region Still Lacks How the Personal Status Code made Tunisia a positive outlier
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When a Country Gave Women Rights Most of the Region Still Lacks
How the Personal Status Code made Tunisia a positive outlier
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 11/08/2026
Available, Accessible, Acceptable, and Good Quality How General Comment 14 showed what the right to health protects
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Available, Accessible, Acceptable, and Good Quality
How General Comment 14 showed what the right to health protects
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 10/08/2026
5,000 Indigenous Cultures The value of self-identification and the price of protecting one’s land on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
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5,000 Indigenous Cultures
The value of self-identification and the price of protecting one’s land on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 07/08/2026
The Survivor who Became the Law Maria da Penha inspiring Brazil’s law against domestic violence
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The Survivor who Became the Law
Maria da Penha inspiring Brazil’s law against domestic violence
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 06/08/2026
From Activism to Success and once again to Activism The rise and fall of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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From Activism to Success and once again to Activism
The rise and fall of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 05/08/2026
You Can't Outsource an Execution How Judge v. Canada forced the Human Rights Committee to overturn its own precedent on the right to life
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You Can't Outsource an Execution
How Judge v. Canada forced the Human Rights Committee to overturn its own precedent on the right to life
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 03/08/2026
Metadata, Before It Had a Name The impact of the 1984 case of Malone v. United Kingdom on privacy in the digital age
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Metadata, Before It Had a Name
The impact of the 1984 case of Malone v. United Kingdom on privacy in the digital age
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 29/07/2026
No Body, No Proof, No Case? How the case of Velásquez Rodriguez flipped State’s concealment of abuse against them
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No Body, No Proof, No Case?
How the case of Velásquez Rodriguez flipped State’s concealment of abuse against them
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 27/07/2026
The Hardest Eighty-Three Steps to Climb The fight for, and the success that is, the US Americans with Disabilities Act
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The Hardest Eighty-Three Steps to Climb
The fight for, and the success that is, the US Americans with Disabilities Act
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 23/07/2026
She Never Knew Her Most Famous Words Emma Lazarus, the Statue of Liberty, and a life spent arguing for refuge everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 21/07/2026
What if Human Rights are not Enough? When justice for all stops being a utopia
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What if Human Rights are not Enough?
When justice for all stops being a utopia
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 09/07/2026
Not Just Members of This or That Nation The Russell-Einstein Manifesto showed some threats were everyone's problem
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Not Just Members of This or That Nation
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto showed some threats were everyone's problem
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 08/07/2026
Liberty of Conscience, Written Into Law Rhode Island's Royal Charter and its unlikely list of firsts
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Liberty of Conscience, Written Into Law
Rhode Island's Royal Charter and its unlikely list of firsts
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 07/07/2026
Re-Anchoring Human Rights How Soering v. United Kingdom shifted the lens of human rights obligations
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Re-Anchoring Human Rights
How Soering v. United Kingdom shifted the lens of human rights obligations
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 03/07/2026
“We hold these truths…” The US Declaration of Independence turns 250!
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“We hold these truths…”
The US Declaration of Independence turns 250!
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 02/07/2026
High Standards, not to Protect but to Stifle The case of Herrera Ulloa v Costa Rica
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High Standards, not to Protect but to Stifle
The case of Herrera Ulloa v Costa Rica
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 30/06/2026
Never Again, at Home How Germany judges genocide
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Never Again, at Home
How Germany judges genocide
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 25/06/2026
If You Desire Peace, Cultivate Justice (at Least Among Workers) The International Labour Organization and the workers’ seat at the table
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If You Desire Peace, Cultivate Justice (at Least Among Workers)
The International Labour Organization and the workers’ seat at the table
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 23/06/2026
Unwritten Law From a general practice to being binding, and how human rights took advantage of it everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 19/06/2026
Happy Juneteenth, everybody! open.substack.com/pub/everyday...
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 18/06/2026
The Words Before The Violence International Day for Countering Hate Speech: the blurry line dividing legitimate speech from hate
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The Words Before The Violence
International Day for Countering Hate Speech: the blurry line dividing legitimate speech from hate
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 17/06/2026
Pushing Back the Desert, One Tree at a Time Shining a light on the Great Green Wall on the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
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Pushing Back the Desert, One Tree at a Time
Shining a light on the Great Green Wall on the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 12/06/2026
The Prison Built Outside the Law Deciding that even detainees at Guantánamo have constitutional rights everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 10/06/2026
Guilt by Spectral Evidence How the Salem witch trials reversed the presumption of innocence
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Guilt by Spectral Evidence
How the Salem witch trials reversed the presumption of innocence
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 03/06/2026
“No Way – It's Ours” Ending the legal fiction that justified Australian colonization
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“No Way – It's Ours”
Ending the legal fiction that justified Australian colonization
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 02/06/2026
The Founding Mothers of Modern-Day Italy When 12 million women voted on their country’s future
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The Founding Mothers of Modern-Day Italy
When 12 million women voted on their country’s future
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 01/06/2026
Parents, Children, and the State The triangle of rights at the heart of family law, and the support gap it doesn’t close everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/parents-ch...
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Parents, Children, and the State
The triangle of rights at the heart of family law, and the support gap it doesn’t close
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 29/05/2026
"I am a Woman's Rights" From slave to national activist: the most famous speech of Sojourner Truth everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
"I am a Woman's Rights"
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 28/05/2026
Write for Rights The newspaper article that lit the candle of Amnesty International everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Write for Rights
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 26/05/2026
One of Human Rights’ Greatest Successes: From 750 Million to 2 Million Decolonization, self-determination, and the 17 territories still waiting for both everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 21/05/2026
Reforming Your Country, Despite the Denouncements Mary Robinson’s lifetime of pushing for social change in Ireland everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 18/05/2026
What Is Accepted Today Might be Prohibited Tomorrow Human rights treaties as living instruments everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
What Is Accepted Today Might be Prohibited Tomorrow
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 15/05/2026
Some Families Deserve Protection. Others, Apparently, Don't. International Day of Families and what human rights says counts as a family everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Some Families Deserve Protection. Others, Apparently, Don't.
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 13/05/2026
Ending Slavery in Brazil - Formally but not Completely How the last country in the Western hemisphere abolished slavery everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
Ending Slavery in Brazil - Formally but not Completely
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Everyday Human Rights @everydayhumanrights.substack.com · 08/05/2026
War Without Limits Means Suffering Without End Henry Dunant: the man who invented humanitarian law everydayhumanrights.substack.com/p/…
War Without Limits Means Suffering Without End
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